Bethany is quiet and introverted, looking only for peace and quiet, but Owen yearns for excitement. The story within a story element takes off in unpredictable fashion as Owen and Bethany change the course of events. Who hasn’t sat in class bored silly wishing life were more interesting? And who doesn’t love to escape into a book when life gets crazy?įull of adventure, humor, and seemingly endless imagination, Story Thieves is a ton of fun. There are many wonderful aspects to Story Thieves. The principal characters are extremely relatable. And he thinks he can use a magical spell to locate her father! He promises Bethany he’ll keep her secret and leave her alone if she’ll give him five minutes in the book. He aims to prevent the death of the Magister in the seventh Kiel Gnomenfoot book. Owen, thrilled that books are real, sees an opportunity to be an active participant. It turns out Bethany is half-fictional, and she’s desperately searching for her fictional dad. Suddenly “five chocolate-covered fingers right out of the center of the book, the edge, and to pull themselves out”! Or at least he attempts to, but the book starts jumping around. Disgusted at Bethany’s mishandling of the book, Owen takes it back to the library and reshelves it. If that doesn’t beat all, it’s a book from the library where his mom works - and makes him help out. He finds only a chocolate-stained copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lying in the hallway. When Owen looks for Bethany after class, she’s disappeared.
It looks like she might be sleeping until she drops her math book to reveal a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hiding behind. Until class gets “a fraction less boring” when Bethany is caught “hunched down behind her math book”. Owen is in math class, mentally enumerating tortuously dull things to prove that nothing is more boring than fractions. …Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany’s secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot’s final (very final) adventure. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father… It turns out Bethany’s half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.īethany can’t let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen’s favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he’ll never say a word. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world’s homework and chores.īut everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen-his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series.
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